It's 20. You start with the parentheses and 8 + 12 is 20. Then you have the brackets next, and so that's 20/4 and that's 5. Then all you have left is 4 x 5 which is 20.
The amount of energy that the given amount of food contains is the product of the given content per grams and the amount of food in grams.
For this item, we assume that g(x) is the total energy that the howler monkey needs to obtain and x is the amount of food in grams. From the presented concept in the first paragraph,
amount of energy = (3.35 kcal/gram) x (amount of food)
<em>g(x) = 3.35x</em>